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Interactive analysis and evaluation of ERTS data for regional planning and urban development: A Los Angeles Basin case studyThe progression endemic to the ERTS Data Use Experiment SR 124 in data quality, analysis sophistication and applications responsiveness is reviewed. The roles of the variety of ERTS products, including the supporting underflight aircraft imagery at various scales, are discussed in the context of this investigation. The versatility of interpretation techniques and outputs developed and implemented via the General Electric Multispectral Information Extraction Systems is described and exemplified by both system-expository and applications-explanatory products. The wide-ranging and in-depth applications studied in the course of this experiment can be characterized as community-oriented and agency-directed. In the former, generic category, which is primarily data-contextual, problems analyzed dealt with agricultural systems, surface water bodies, snow cover, brush fire burns, forestry, grass growth, parks - golf courses - cemeteries, dust storms, grading sites, geological features and coastal water structure. The ERTS MSS band selectivity and measurements thresholds were of primary interest here. The agency-directed application areas have been user-evaluational in nature. Beginning with overall urbanized regional analysis of land cover density-development intensity, residential areas were analyzed for ascertaining if housing types could be aggregated with any degree of reliability.
Document ID
19740022619
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Raje, S.
(General Electric Co. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Economy, R.
(General Electric Co. Philadelphia, PA, United States)
Willoughby, G.
(OVAACS Intern., Inc. Los Angeles, United States)
Mcknight, J.
(Regional Planning Commission)
Date Acquired
August 7, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1974
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center 3d ERTS-1 Symp., Vol. 1, Sect. A
Subject Category
Geophysics
Report/Patent Number
PAPER-L4
Accession Number
74N30732
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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